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AMAZON IS OFFICIALLY IN THE ONLINE CAR SALES BUSINESS

Amazon Autos is an e-commerce business that lets customers find, order, and buy new cars, trucks, and SUVs from dealerships. It launched on Tuesday with Hyundai in 48 US cities. Amazon Autos will allow customers to secure financing and e-sign paperwork. It will also handle trade-ins. Customers can only buy new cars. Amazon will add more cities, additional auto manufacturers, leasing, and expanded financing options in 2025.

ANNA JACQUES HOSPITAL RANSOMWARE BREACH EXPOSED 300K PATIENTS

Anna Jacques suffered a data breach towards the end of 2023 that led to the publication of the breached data in early 2024. The hospital concluded a manual review of the breached data in November 2024 and has notified the over 300K individuals who were affected. The exposed information includes demographic information, medical history, health insurance information, SSNs, driver's license numbers, and financial information.

CRUISE EMPLOYEES ‘BLINDSIDED' BY GM'S PLAN TO END ROBOTAXI PROGRAM

Cruise CEO Marc Whitten announced that GM would no longer fund the company in a Slack message on Tuesday afternoon. Cruise will be absorbed into GM and combined with the automaker's own efforts to develop driver assistance features and eventually fully autonomous personal vehicles. It is unclear whether employees' jobs are safe. Several employees reported feeling blindsided by the decision - they had been following a roadmap to launch a driverless service in Houston in 2025.

NASA'S JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE REVEALS UNIVERSE EXPANDING FASTER THAN THOUGHT

The universe is expanding about 8% faster than initially assumed possible. New measurements from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that the long-established discrepancy between the observed expansion rate of the universe and the rate we thought possible based on our knowledge of the cosmos is potentially due to the influence of dark matter and dark energy. The discrepancy suggests that something is missing in our understanding of the early universe. The new data confirms that the universe is expanding faster today than it did during its first few billion years.

NOBODY GETS FIRED FOR PICKING JSON, BUT MAYBE THEY SHOULD?

JSON is famously simple, but its formal definition is quite complicated. The biggest problem with JSON is the incredible diversity of parser behavior and non-conformity across and within language ecosystems. Everything is implementation-defined, which can result in data loss and other issues. This article looks at how JSON is designed, how it is used and misused, and how its 'human readability' features can cause headaches for users.

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